Locomotive-pilot attachment.



C. E. MATTISON.

LOCOMOTIVE PILOT ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 30, 1914.

1,137,880. I Patented May 4,1915.

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THE NORRIS eETERS c0, PHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTON. D4

cHAaLnY n. MATTISO'N, or srennrroursraivn.

LDGOMOTIVE-PILOT ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May a", 1915.

Application filed October 30, 1914. Serial No. 869,427.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEY E. MATTI- son, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sibley, in the parish of lVebster and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Locomotive-Pilot Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

By way of explanation it may be stated that locomotive engines are frequently derailed by reason of the fact that animals and other obstacles are not cast aside by the pilot, but pass underneath the pilot and come into contact withthe truck wheels.

The present invention aims to provide a simple mechanism mounted on the pilot whereby an animal or other obstacle passing beneath the pilot will be securely held upon the pilot and will travel along with the vehicle until the same can be stopped, the obstacle at the same time being held out of contact with the wheels.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of. devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will, appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 shows in bottom plan, a locomotive pilot to which the present invention has been .applied; Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing a portion of a locomotive engine to which the structure forming the subject matter of this application has been attached.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a railway track and the numeral 2 indicates a locomotive engine having wheels 3 adapted to traverse the track 1. The pilot of the locomotive is shown at 4 and comprises the usual cross bar 5 located at the rear, lower portion of the pilot. To the cross bar 5 are attached a plurality of forwardly extended impalement devices which depend below the lower face of the pilot. The impalement devices preferably are in the form of hooks, each hook comprising a shank 6 and a bill 7 which is brought to a point. By means of bolts 8, the shanks 6 of the hooks are attached to the cross bar 5,so that the bills 7 l of the hooks extend below the lower surface of the pilot 4i and project forwardly. The hooks may be arranged variously upon the pilot without jeopardizing the utility of the invention. Preferably, however, pairs of hooks indicated at 9 are located close to the rails of the track 1 upon either side thereof, so as to protect and guard the wheels 3. If desired, another pair of hooks 10 may be located intermediate the ends of the cross bar 5, symmetrically with respect to the longitudinal center of the locomotive engine 2. All of the hooks lie between the rear end of the pilot 4 and the wheels 3, or at least, are placed in front of the wheels 3, so that when an obstacle, such as an animal, passes beneath the pilot 3, the animal or obstacle will be caught upon the hooks and will be dragged forwardly, instead of being permitted to pass beneath the wheels 3, thereby inmany instances, and almost invariably, effecting a derailment of the locomotive. After the locomotive has been brought to a stop, the animal being impaled upon the hooks, a means is employed whereby the animal may be drawn off the hooks. \Vith this end in view, a securing device of some sort, such as a chain 11, is secured at its forward end to a fixed support which may be one of the ties 15, the numeral 12 serving to indicate the fixed end of the chain 11. The rear end of the chain 11 is attached, as shown at 14, in any suitable manner, to a portion of the carcass or obstacle, and when the locomotive engine 2 is backed, the carcass or obstacle will be pulled off the hooks, the pilot at passing rearwardly 7 off the anchored obstacle.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a rigid, obstacle-engaging member comprising a forwardly presented impalement element; and means for rigidly securing the obstacleengaging member to a vehicle-pilot whereby the forwardly presented impalement element will lie below the lowermost part of the pilot and form a rigidly mounted means for preventing an obstacle which passes beneath the pilot from engaging the wheels of the vehicle.

2. In a device of the class described, rigid, obstacle-engaging members each comprising a forwardly presented impalement element; and means for securing the obstacle-engaging members rigidly to the pilot of a ehicle in testimony that l claim the foregoing as in pairs, whereby the pairs Will be located in my own I have hereto alfixed my signature 10 front of the Wheels of the Vehicle aiid the in thepreseiice-of two Witnesses.

members of the respective pairs be located p close to the opposed side 'faces of the re OHARLEY MATTISON' V spective Wheels With the impalement e'le; Witnesses: V 7

ments located below the lowermdst part of I ALEX. WERNER,

the pilot. V HENRY TILLMAN.

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